Black Mesa is a 2020 first-person shooter video game developed and published by Crowbar Collective. It is a fan-made remake of Half-Life (1998) made in the Source game engine. Originally published as a free mod in September 2012, Black Mesa was approved for commercial release by Valve, the developers of Half-Life.
Reviews:
- Overwhelmingly Positive (95% of 114,039) All Time
- Very Positive (94% of 854) Recent
I've never played any of the Half Life games, is this the best place to start?
IMO the correct thing to do is to play Black Mesa after playing the originals. I treat this like an alternate way to experience Half-Life 1
Wouldn't start with this, but it's fun to play after the originals.
This is fan-made, so I would start with the Half-Life games themselves. There's a moment in the first Half-Life game where you encounter enemy troops for the first time and I'd still want to experience it in the original engine, no matter how old it is now. That said, I've played through them all, and I don't love them. It's a depressing storyline/environment and there's a lot of motion sickness to be had if you're prone to that (need to adjust field of view).
While I don’t think it’s the best place to start, I do think it’s an OK place to start. The original games are often extremely cheap so worth trying, but there are some people who genuinely can’t get into old games and if that was the case you’d be much better playing this and continuing on than you would be giving up.
Black Mesa is great imho, and there are a lot of places where they’ve done an impressive job of capturing or genuinely improving upon the good points of the originals, but it’s still ultimately a pretty different game with a somewhat different feel and many of its own unique flaws.
any news on Half Life 3??? Instead of remakes after remakes after remakes?
From what they've said its not happening. Essentially they said the expectations for a third game is so high now they could never meet them.
damn, then they should do a remake like this for Opposing Force and Blue Shift
They've done blue shift already, it was released end of last year. You just need to download it as a mod as they've released it for free - instructions on their post here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/362890/view/72852298…
:)
Operation: Black Mesa is an upcoming Opposing Force remake, and Black Mesa: Blue Shift has released the first five chapters (out of eight I believe).
Glad nobody told that to Square Enix re FF7 remake…
The vibe I got from last year's HL2 20th anniversary stuff was that there was some regret over not doing Ep3, so they were looking at getting some new games in the HL/Portal universe happening. I could be wrong - check in with me in another 20 years.
We might be getting closer to another Half-Life game. We've had Half-Life Alyx for 5 years now, and there have been multiple rumours swirling around about another HL game in development. No word as to whether it's a PC or VR game, or whether it's another spin-off, prequel or sequel - but there has definitely been some HL related work going on at Valve over the past couple of years. Whether it ever comes out or not is another question.
My best guess would be that we may see something release at the same time as the next major Valve hardware release. We got Alyx when the Index VR headset launched - I'm guessing we might see this next game when the Deckard headset launches - or maybe it'll be some other hardware we haven't seen yet. Only time will tell!
This is so good - the soundtrack is incredible as well
They only time I've ever heard of this is in a Jonathan Coulton song "Still Alive". It seems like people really cared about this game..
Maybe you'll find someone else to help you. Maybe Black Mesa…
THAT WAS A JOKE. HA HA. FAT CHANCE.
Anyway, this cake is great. It's so delicious and moist.
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I'm replaying through this at the moment, highly recommended!
(Yes the Xen levels are a bit repetitive at the end, but at this price I reckon it's more than worthwhile)